A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
I completed my tax returns this week. Even the simplified process is not simple enough, especially if you have income from various sources. I also wonder why Dhoni or Akshay are the highest taxpayers in India and not the richest, like Ambani or other billionaires. We need to change the definition of ‘rich...
I was at Fifth Elephant and met many people after a long time. I had great conversations with Kiran from Swetcha, Chaitanya, Yeswanth, Haripriya, Srinivas Kodali, Venkat of Scribble Data, Rasagy, Prashant, etc. I missed OpenDataCamp, which was my place for such things. Maybe in the summer of 2025, we will get to...
This is post number 104 of Weekly Notes, marking two years since Weekly Notes 29/2022. I’ve received more messages about these posts than any others from friends, family, and strangers. Thank you for reading and messaging me. Please send me a link to your weekly notes. If it’s not already on my feed reader, I’ll add and read it for sure.
Welcome to the second half of 2024. This year is flying by. Days feel slow, but months and weeks are speeding.
One advantage of using the same software again and again is that the process and toolsets are already established and proven. Grouptabs uses CouchDB as its backend, a database that I have been using for various purposes for a long time. I have toolset and process for CouchDB. In this case, I wanted...
I am a BillMonk refugee. I used it until it went down. Even though it was not FOSS, it was the first app I had seen and used for bill splitting. Today, there are lots of FOSS alternatives. Some of my favorite ones are listed below in this Linked List edition.
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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